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bedfellow

/bed-fel-oh/US // ˈbɛdˌfɛl oʊ //UK // (ˈbɛdˌfɛləʊ) //

同床异梦,同床人,伙伴,同床共枕

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called bedmate. a person who shares one's bed.
    • : an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency: Politics makes strange bedfellows.

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Examples

  • In doing so, it has found itself partnered with some unlikely bedfellows, profoundly undermining both Ennahda’s credibility and that of its political partners.

  • The $200 billion data broker industry is lucrative, and has many unlikely bedfellows.

  • The tax measures are major wins for anti-smoking advocates after a string of defeats but, in an example of how politics makes strange bedfellows, Colorado’s tax might not have been possible without Altria’s help.

  • Fiery grain liquor and highway maintenance are strange bedfellows.

  • Wallace crept into bed beside his communicative bedfellow in silence.

  • He first made an attempt on the apprentice, his bedfellow; but he struggled so far as to effect his escape, and hid himself.

  • He implores mercy for his “desolate bedfellow,” for her children, and for his sons by his first wife.

  • My bedfellow and I slept on an oilcloth, covered with an overcoat, and tied our four feet up together in a flannel shirt.

  • Why do they hardly feel that they have prayed if company, or a bedfellow, on a journey, keeps them from using oral prayer?